A pictorial history of the silent screen (1953)

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ARRY HIUIARD, THEDA BARA, JOHN WEBB DILLON BC Mary Pickford was still queen of the 0 Famous Players lot and Adolph Zukor d her for two more years at a guarantee of 10,000 and in August formed the Artcraft PicCorporation to distribute Pickford Pictures, days after the Pickford contract was signed, r announced the merger of Famous Playersy Corporation which included also the Bosi, Morosco and Pallas companies. Zukor had )l'idated production for Paramount distribution. ie, Edison, Selig and Essanay of the old guard ja'nies united as K. E. S. E., trying desperately restall their eventual downfall. Metro was beng an important company. The Fox Company ige increased yearly. Both these companies [ lavish productions of "Romeo and Juliet." > signed stage star Bertha Kalich and George lih, a Fordham University athlete who had been Kng minor roles in Griffith and Triangle producTf. The press releases stated that by "public Wand" Metro had signed Beverly Bayne and refid her with Francis X. Bushman. They also Itacted Harold Lockwood and May Allison fie popularity as a team was threatening the Rman-Bayne' supremacy. Ethel Barrymore, llier Lionel, Olga Petrova, Mabel Taliaferro, Ik Dana and Valli Valli were other Metro stars. THEDA BARA, HARRY HILLIARD SCENES FROM "ROMEO AND JULIET' THEDA BARA, HARRY HILLIARD u ■t ncl ALICE GALE HARRY HILLIARD, THEDA BARA, JOHN WEBB DILLON, EDWIN HOLT, HELEN TRACY IN "ROMEO AND JULIET" CARL VON SCHILLER, GLADYS BROCKWELL IN "SINS OF THE PARENTS" ANNA LUTHER, GEORGE WALSH IN "THE BEAST" FOX FEATURES THEDA BARA IN "DESTRUCTION" 105